ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,913, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sound signal processing apparatus and method of processing sound signal" was invented by Cheheung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyunwook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound signal processing apparatus may include: a directional microphone configured to detect a user voice signal including a user's voice by arranging the directional microphone to face an utterance point of the user's voice; a non-directional microphone configured to detect a mixed sound signal comprising the user voice and an external sound; an...